ppierald

12 ms·

1.
by ppierald 2y ago
Respectively, yes. The ability to create venvs so fast, that it becomes a silent operation that the end user never thinks about anymore. The dependency management and installation is lightning quick. It deals with all of the python versioni
2.
by ppierald 2y ago
I like "Hi Team". I do use that in certain social circles, but I do get the point of the article. Survivor, the US TV show, used to say "Come on in guys" until recently where they made a point to discuss the topic on cam
3.
by ppierald 2y ago
I happened to get invited to friends of my in-laws who own a vacation property on the Oregon coast for the 2017 eclipse. Of course, the Pacific coast is dicey at best, so we were crossing our fingers. When the time came, the stars lined up
4.
by ppierald 3y ago
A few points. PCI-DSS does not mandate the use of a WAF. It is one of two ways you can fulfill requirement 6.5 or 6.6. WAF + OWASP Top Ten ruleset is typically easier to get evidence for your auditor, but you can show that continuous scanni
5.
by ppierald 4y ago
If there is some legitimate reason (say performance) to keep a tighter form (inline assembly, Python 1-liner, whatever), then making the unfurled equivalency as a comment nearby to allow the next developer to have a fighting chance would be
6.
by ppierald 4y ago
Diablo Canyon is in an absolutely beautiful part of the central coast of California. Definitely visit the greater San Luis Obispo area. Californians want it all (green and plentiful), but lack the basics to make that happen (coalfire supple
7.
by ppierald 4y ago
The going to a ball game is an interesting example. I think there are financial disincentives at play, most notably, the price of beer. There are likely forces at play that will maximize the dollar intake while minimizing the amount consume
8.
by ppierald 5y ago
Not a huge deal in and of itself? Good key management processes would have you rotate every so often. However, we probably have a lot/most/all of us that use the same SSH key for many systems and loss of that private key would be
9.
by ppierald 5y ago
I made one of these for Yahoo! Health in 2000. Naturally it was not an app. Good idea!
10.
by ppierald 5y ago
Get your colonoscopy. Period. Don't let people tell you fables about "the prep" or be afraid of something going up your butt. "The prep" is a bit unpleasant for a couple of hours, but no big deal. The actual procedu
11.
by ppierald 5y ago
I Bonds are inflation protected bonds, so the context here is that the high yield on these bonds reinforces the reality that inflation (whether temporary or long-term) is here.
12.
by ppierald 5y ago
My least favorite and most annoying Google nag is the not-so-helpful reminder of which google account I am logged-in as on every google doc I open through out the day. A dismiss click is needed for "You're currently signed in as x
13.
by ppierald 5y ago
The combination of social networks and global warming are gonna doom us all.
14.
by ppierald 5y ago
Bravo
15.
by ppierald 5y ago
I used to just go ask Friedl.
16.
by ppierald 5y ago
Age 14, I worked 2 hours a day, 5 days a week at the local fish market doing clean up and end of day work. Nasty stuff. I worked the summer before college at a friend of my parent's warehouse basically relabeling overstock canned goods
17.
by ppierald 5y ago
I am definitely not an expert in these areas and I'm sure someone 100x smarter than I am has thought of this and discounted it already, but is there any ability to decompile the executable provided to Colonial and get to patterns of so
18.
by ppierald 5y ago
As a former coworker with Simon, he is endless fascinated with learning and helping others gain knowledge. The fact that this page exists is not surprising to me in the slightest. It represents the high quality research and documentation he
19.
by ppierald 5y ago
In 1970 (shortly after my birth), my grandmother bought me my first Christmas ornament for the tree. It was a glass Michael Collins astronaut figure. Over the years, it has taken a couple tumbles, lost a leg and most of the helmet, but ever
20.
by ppierald 5y ago
Math is hard. Programming is hard.
21.
by ppierald 6y ago
Similar to https://onetimesecret.com OSS which you host internally.
22.
by ppierald 6y ago
Argentina is a great example. I am an American and have been there many times. They have extreme inflation and regressive policies against USD or foreign currency. Take a look at https://bluedollar.net . Official rates are buy at
23.
by ppierald 6y ago
I was/am a software engineer who had a wonderful opportunity to join a central security team at a very large internet company focusing on security engineering. My recommendation on switching is to latch onto any SMEs in your company wh
24.
by ppierald 6y ago
Of course... just using the common ports that people often quote in the obscurity arguments. Harden first, obsecure second.
25.
by ppierald 6y ago
I've always advocated it (whether you call it security by obscurity or not) simply because most of the scanners will not choose to pick any other port but 22, then systems like DenyHosts will provide higher fidelity about threats and l
26.
by ppierald 6y ago
There is a fantastic book that covers all of these topics and goes straight to the heart of the "nothing to hide" arguments both pro and con. In fact, the book is titled "Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff between Privacy an
27.
by ppierald 6y ago
Shamir Secret Splitting divides a secret into M pieces requiring N parts to reconstitute. This does not absolutely prevent this attack, but requires collusion between attackers who are presumably trusted insiders, but trusted insiders can b
28.
by ppierald 6y ago
The KMS autounseal is especially convenient, but you have to know that there is no silver bullet in crypto. You are trading off the convenience of the auto-unseal (and frankly, the fact that this can happen automatically in the middle of th
29.
by ppierald 6y ago
I was fascinated when I crossed this story. The mechanics of driving a car aren't that hard once you've done it a couple of times, but to get the car started, into reverse, back up, into drive, navigate surface streets, accelerate
30.
by ppierald 7y ago
Let's see how much code like this exists: if 'us-west-2' in region: // do it

More ›